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Ranger Rick: Earth Day marks 47 years of Chicken Little
Earth Day, what an innocuous statement! However, from starting as a fun in the sun worship of “Mother Earth” by hippies and long hairs in a park in San Francisco…
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Basura: Freedom of religion includes genital mutilation?
“The blues ain’t killed me yet, But they’re doin’ the best they can.” — Chris Smither, musician & poet “Leave The Light On” Two doctors and the wife of one…
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Time for Army Bob to go on offense vs. prostate cancer
by Robert M. Traxler After months on the defensive (androgen deprivation therapy) stopping the advancement of the disease with drugs, thankfully the time has finally arrived to go on the…
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Army Bob: People on the left now the wing-nut jobs
“The Republican Party has become the most dangerous organization in world history.” — Mr. Noam Chomsky. Genghis Kahn destroyed complete races of humans, killing every man, woman and child. The…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: We’re going there in a handbasket
It wasn’t just because Earth Day (April 22) was approaching that I watched the excellent PBS documentary about Rachel Carson, author of the ground-breaking “Silent Spring.” It was because I…
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Ranger Rick: Mrs. Clinton needs to retire from public life
We all have endured the long and hard fought presidential election in 2016. After such turmoil, you would think the newly elected president and the loser would be in two…
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Barry Hastings: Trump distraction and the Coast Guard
By Barry Hastings The Donald's recent cruise missile attack on Assad's military airbase in Syria was nothing more (or less) than another attempt to distract Americans from his administration's "Russian…
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Basura: Is President Donald Trump suffering from illness?
“All will be revealed.” — Anon. What’s going on with Donald Trump? He seems to lack a consistent point of view. In the last few days he’s reversed himself (walked…
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Army Bob: Truth indeed is a casualty of civil wars
Sarin gas was used in the Syrian civil war. As our own civil war will attest, civil wars are the most vicious. In ours, 2% of the entire nation died,…
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Ranger Rick: The musings of a right-wing deplorable
There are several things that bother me, and should you, in terms of judicial confirmation,education and local government. • Judicial – The senate confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch has been…